Dorothy Howard Collection

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Dorothy Gray Mills Howard was a noted author and scholar of children’s
games and folklore. She graduated from North Texas State Teachers
College in 1923, where she was prominent in sports and other activities.
Her teaching career included public schools in New York and New Jersey
(1930-1944), Professor of English, Frostburg State College, Maryland
(1944-1967), and Visiting Professor of English, University of Nebraska
(1967-1969). She received a Fulbright post-doctoral research grant in
1954 to study the traditional play customs of Australian children. Her
extensive list of publications includes poetry, numerous articles about
the folklore of children’s play, and her two major works, Dorothy’s
World: Childhood in Sabine Bottom, 1902-1910, published in 1977, and
Pedro of Tonalá, published in 1989.

Dr. Howard received many awards,
including one from The Association for the Anthropological Study of
Play, recognizing her for her significant contributions to the study of
play. The American Folklore Society named an award in her honor, the
Dorothy Howard Award for Excellence in Folklore. Other research areas
included an autobiography, a novel, studies of an Amish community in
Maryland, and genealogy. Dr. Howard died in 1996.